In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that.

The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.

Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.